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NV - Tybo,Nye County - 1879 - Tybo Weekly Sun Newspaper, The - Gil Schmidtmann Collection

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
NV - Tybo,Nye County - 1879 - Tybo Weekly Sun Newspaper, The - Gil Schmidtmann Collection
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
2 Saturday editions: 3 May and 10 May. Volume 2, numbers 51 and 52. Fair condition. The edges are flaking. Yellowing. The 10 May edition has had an add cut out of it. Tybo was named a mining district in 1866 and the mining town that grew up around it took the same name. A Post Office was established in 1874 and it was open until 1906. The name is derived from the Shoshone word “tai vu,” which means “white man” [Carlson, 1974, 236-237]. The paper, which was established by John C. Ragsdale, was in operation from 1877 to 1880 [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091365/]. Ragsdale did all the writing, printing, and distribution for the republican slanted newspaper [Lingenfelter, 1984, 249]. During the last half of the 1800s, the republican party of Lincoln had the platform of the modern democratic party. Ideologies of the two parties switched in the early twentieth century. The most prominent story in this lot is the editorial about the influence of Chinese opium, where it comes from, and its effects on people who use it.